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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Grill Temp Gauge Chart

« on: June 26, 2013, 09:33:51 PM »

Excellent job on the plate Dave.

(;-) TP

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Grill Temp Gauge Chart

« on: June 26, 2013, 11:21:26 AM »

The safe cooking temp for pork was lowered to 145deg (;-)

Just a thought(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: The discouraging state of DIY CNC

« on: June 26, 2013, 11:15:56 AM »

I believe that DIY CNC is in the BEST shape it has ever been. There are MORE products to choose from than there has ever been.

Most of the problem today is the instant grits syndrome. They want to be experts on CNC machining right out of the box.  With DIY there is a HUGE learning curve to overcome to learn the total package.

(;-) TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: ATC built, need some macro help

« on: June 23, 2013, 11:09:27 PM »

Excellent job on the tool changer(;-)

Care to share the completed macro to control the tool change ?

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Probing Wizard

« on: June 23, 2013, 07:38:15 PM »

OK time to start work on the wizard again. So far this seems like a clunky process from a wizard. What it will do is write the Probing G code to Mach3 to process. A screen set makes more sense.

You thoughts, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Manual movement of Stepper motors w/o power

« on: June 18, 2013, 02:55:20 PM »

Go into Config and UNCHECK the limits for X and Y.

Restart Mach3 and you should be able to carefully back off the physical limit switches. NOTE at this point you will NOT have limit switch protection.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: BT30 spindle from scratch - with power drawbar and ATC of course

« on: June 18, 2013, 02:50:14 PM »

Nice Job Steve. Have you considered using weldments for the frame instead of buying castings. That way you can have FAST linear ways to build from and design in plenty of room for LARGE screws. Very good idea on the large screws.

(;-)TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Modal Subroutines

« on: June 18, 2013, 02:46:10 PM »

Mach3 is at the end of developmental cycle. Hopefully Mach4 will be better.

(;-) TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Looking for utility to cut rectangular pockets

« on: June 18, 2013, 11:59:01 AM »

Craig Check your Email

(;-) TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Looking for utility to cut rectangular pockets

« on: June 18, 2013, 11:39:09 AM »

HIYA Craig, I am remodeling the wife's Kitchen and she just found out I slip  off to work on this(;-).

So back to the Kitchen work with a knot on my head. I will send you the wizard AS IS you need to verify the math(;-). I think it is right.

(;-) TP